Motherboard cooling

[Eil Atan]

I have seen lots of suggestions to cool the northbridge with a blue orb... how important is this? my motherboard temp is currently at 36C at full load... too high?

 

[Despotes]

Eil Atan (Jul 03, 2001 10:37 p.m.):
I have seen lots of suggestions to cool the northbridge with a blue orb... how important is this? my motherboard temp is currently at 36C at full load... too high?

 

[Despotes]

Eil Atan (Jul 03, 2001 10:37 p.m.):
I have seen lots of suggestions to cool the northbridge with a blue orb... how important is this? my motherboard temp is currently at 36C at full load... too high?

 

[Colin]

Mine runs 1C over ambient full load or idle. It's cooled with proper case ventilation, a Socket 7 HSF on the Northbridge, small HSFs on the voltage regulators and a passive HS on the clock generator.

Here is a pic. The clock gen HS was added after this pic was taken and added 1 MHz to my FSB.

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